SRC Inc. has secured two contracts with a potential value of $12.3 million for its Foliage Penetrating, Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Tracking and Engagement Radar (FORESTER). The radar, mounted on helicopters, penetrates through foliage to track people and vehicles on the ground.

The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Simulation and Training Technology Center awarded SRC $1.3 million for the FORESTER Signal Processing Enhancements Program. A portion of funding for this comes through a fiscal year 2010 congressional earmark of former U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei.

SRC was awarded a second contract worth up to $11 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Under the two-year DARPA contract, SRC will develop a set of tools to improve current foliage penetrating capabilities.